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@with taten ateut lffice' MARVIN PIERCE, 0F BUFFALO, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 64,445, dated llfay 7, 1867.

IMPBVED WASHING MACHINE.

Be it known that I, MARVIN-PIERCE, ofthe town of Buffalo, in-the countyof Buffalo, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Washing Clothes; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the lsame, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a pai-t'ofjthis specification, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view; -and Figure 2, a detached sectional view, of which-The section A is a grooved Awash-board, of the make and form of thosecommonly used in rubbing or washing clothes by hand, eneepting that itis constructed with an opening, a, immediately above the rubber orgrooves b, sniiiciently large to conveniently pass the articles washedthrough the saine, with grooves in `the rubber b about one-fourth of aninch wide, with side-pieces r one inch. wider above the rubber b thanthey are below this point, and with a shelf, p, in the upper end, aplace for soap.

The section B are two up-rights, about twenty-four inches in length,three inches in width, and one in thickness, fastened onel on eachside-piece r of the wash-board A, opposite each other, by means. of adove-tail tenon and mortise, c, with each an open mortise, d, at theirtops, about six inches in length and three-fourths of an inch in width.Y

The section C is a sweep, about eighteen inches in length, and of awidth equal to the distance between the said uprights, the gudgeons Z ofthe roller lof which play in the mortiscs d.

The section E is a cylindrical rotary rubber, about eleven inches inlength and about fve inches in diameter, with its surface perforated andlongitudinally grooved alternately, the perforatinsbeing aboutthreefourths of an inch in diameter, and the space'grooved about oneinch in width, and plays upon its gudgeons s in the boxesf at the lowerend of the sides n of the sweep C, and about one inch below the handle mof the same.

When used, this machine is placed in a common wash-tub, resting its feeto upon the bottom and its top upon the side of the same, with water inthe tub in quantity sufficient to immerse the rotary rubber E therein atleast one-half its diameter when hanging in the sweep at rest. Theperson Working this machine stands at the top of the wash-board A, andby taking hold of the handle m of the sweep C the rotary rubber E isrolled back and forth upon and over the article' to be washed, which isplaced upon the plain rubber of the Washboard A until it is sufiicientlyrubbed or washed, and then for the sake of convenience the part thusrubbedor washed is passed through the opening a, and another portion ofit is washed or rubbed in the same manner, :12nd so on, the aforesaidperforations ofthe cylinder-formed rotary rubber E doing thc olice of somany buckets to carry up and keep an ample and sufficient flow of waterover the article being washed, while they also. and the grooves,facilitate the cleansing of thevsame.

What I claim as my invention, and desireftol secure bycLettersPatent,is-

The combination ofthe rotary cylindrical rubber E, sweep C, slotteduprights IB, and wash-board A, the latter having the opening a andsoap-shelf y), and all being constructed Aand arranged as hereindescribed and represented. i

MARVIN PIERCE.

Witnesses:

C. W. GILBERT, LEONARD IIAUSER.

